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mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions
authorThierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:58:31 +0000 (16:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:42:53 +0000 (12:42 -0800)
commit80cf897f73b92cae0eb5c48d1bf2b72e79a8a2ea
tree891a9b999ea2b834bad002af7b12b381547c5ef5
parent818ee924d158329899d20ba550d3c12abf356ce2
mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions

kmemleak will add allocations as objects to a pool.  The memory allocated
for each object in this pool is periodically searched for pointers to
other allocated objects.  This only works for memory that is mapped into
the kernel's virtual address space, which happens not to be the case for
most CMA regions.

Furthermore, CMA regions are typically used to store data transferred to
or from a device and therefore don't contain pointers to other objects.

Without this, the kernel crashes on the first execution of the
scan_gray_list() because it tries to access highmem.  Perhaps a more
appropriate fix would be to reject any object that can't map to a kernel
virtual address?

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Catalin]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: include linux/io.h for phys_to_virt()]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/cma.c